Quoting ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:<br />
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> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:53 PM, <austinro@msu.edu> wrote:<br />
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>> I'm not sure what other info might be useful, but I'll provide it or try<br />
>> whatever is asked. A few other possible clues: the factory bios only<br />
>> recognized half of my installed ram, but coreboot recognized all of it.<br />
>> With coreinfo or memtest as payloads, it did not restart, and it displayed<br />
>> the proper vga output.<br />
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> can you remove the RAM that the BIOS did not find? In this way you<br />
> remove any potential hardware problems.<br />
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This board only has one DIMM slot, and the board is only supposed to support up to 1G. I have 1G installed, and it gets reported as 512M. The only other nearly compatible RAM I have to try is a 2G stick; coreboot sees 2G, then has the same problem; the stock BIOS sees 1G, then Linux crashes later.<br />
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So no, I can't practically remove that RAM that wasn't found. <br />
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(This board is kind of lousy overall --when I bought it some of the reviews said it was fussy about RAM, but this particular brand/model# worked, so that's the one I bought, but as I said I could only use half, plus it's really fussy about booting from USB.)<br />
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Rob<br />
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